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• Mar 13, 2012 @ 01:24pm

  Re:

  on Valve's Comprehensive Strategy Shows How To Go From Fee To Free… And Increase Revenue Twelve-fold

  From the president of Sony Online himself:
  
  https://twitter.com/#!/j_smedley/status/138695511971598336

• Mar 13, 2012 @ 01:22pm

  Re:

  on Valve's Comprehensive Strategy Shows How To Go From Fee To Free… And Increase Revenue Twelve-fold

  Last year DC Universe Online went Free, they increased revenues by 700%
  
  Free is a billion dollar industry. Nobody is asking if Free to play games are working anymore, they are asking if pay to play games are.

• Mar 13, 2012 @ 01:16pm

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  on Valve's Comprehensive Strategy Shows How To Go From Fee To Free… And Increase Revenue Twelve-fold

  They effectively bundled TF2 with something else people already wanted to buy, half-life 2

  
  
  No, you can get it stand alone.
  
  

  So, step 1 to having a successful free offering: start with a huge audience and leverage it.

  
  
  Nope, most F2P don't,actually. They start with no audience, and have to build from there.

• Mar 13, 2012 @ 01:08pm

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  on Guess What? Copying Still Isn't Stealing

  Even if I am not using my car, and therefor NOT deprived of anything, the simple act of taking use of the car without permission (not the act of denying me access to it) qualifies the action as STEALING. Just like the act of otaining access to a music file (while not depriving me of the file) is still theft.

  
  
  Except, you know, that is not what's happening at all. Its making a copy of your car, A FREAKING COPY. But I guess being full of shit is your specialty.

• Mar 13, 2012 @ 01:00pm

  Re: Re: Re:-P

  on Valve's Comprehensive Strategy Shows How To Go From Fee To Free… And Increase Revenue Twelve-fold

  Sorry, they didn't format from the wiki. Just use Google, you'll find them all.

• Mar 13, 2012 @ 12:54pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: It can be.

  on Guess What? Copying Still Isn't Stealing

  In a way I did, copies and all.

• Mar 13, 2012 @ 12:52pm

  Re: DRM and Paywall!

  on Valve's Comprehensive Strategy Shows How To Go From Fee To Free… And Increase Revenue Twelve-fold

  So for everything you said to be true, reality needs to change into what you believe it is?
  
  I think you need to ask the nurse is she forgot your medicine today pops.

• Mar 13, 2012 @ 12:50pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: It can be.

  on Guess What? Copying Still Isn't Stealing

  I got a server error, again.

• Mar 13, 2012 @ 12:48pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: It can be.

  on Guess What? Copying Still Isn't Stealing

  I sold you the painting. I didn't sell you a copy of it, but if you want to paint one (a copy) of your own from it, then go for it.

  
  
  So then you agree, making copies isn't stealing. I'm glad we agree.

• Mar 13, 2012 @ 12:48pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: It can be.

  on Guess What? Copying Still Isn't Stealing

  I sold you the painting. I didn't sell you a copy of it, but if you want to paint one (a copy) of your own from it, then go for it.

  
  
  So then you agree, making copies isn't stealing. I'm glad we agree.

• Mar 13, 2012 @ 12:47pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: It can be.

  on Guess What? Copying Still Isn't Stealing

  I sold you the painting. I didn't sell you a copy of it, but if you want to paint one (a copy) of your own from it, then go for it.

  
  
  So then you agree, making copies isn't stealing. I'm glad we agree.

• Mar 13, 2012 @ 12:46pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: It can be.

  on Guess What? Copying Still Isn't Stealing

  I sold you the painting. I didn't sell you a copy of it, but if you want to paint one (a copy) of your own from it, then go for it.

  
  
  So then you agree, making copies isn't stealing. I'm glad we agree.

• Mar 13, 2012 @ 12:45pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: It can be.

  on Guess What? Copying Still Isn't Stealing

  I sold you the painting. I didn't sell you a copy of it, but if you want to paint one (a copy) of your own from it, then go for it.

  
  
  So then you agree, making copies isn't stealing. I'm glad we agree.

• Mar 13, 2012 @ 12:30pm

  Re: Re:

  on Valve's Comprehensive Strategy Shows How To Go From Fee To Free… And Increase Revenue Twelve-fold

  Here are a few additions to that list just this week:
  
  Age of Conan
  APB: Reloaded
  Carte
  Doctor Who: Worlds in Time
  RaiderZ
  Warface

• Mar 13, 2012 @ 12:27pm

  Re:

  on Valve's Comprehensive Strategy Shows How To Go From Fee To Free… And Increase Revenue Twelve-fold

  Not just Valve, free games are a billion dollar industry dude.
  
  Here's just a partial list I posted a few weeks back:
  
  http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120225/00505417877/funniestmost-insightful-comments-week-techdirt.shtml#c106

• Jan 22, 2012 @ 01:01pm

  Re:

  on Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  So they told the truth about how they feel? That would be a first for that bunch of slimy, lying, scumbag assholes.

• Jan 22, 2012 @ 12:57pm

  Re: The thing that computers do is copy stuff. Can the MAFIAA and the Internet co-exist?

  on Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  YAY, the 80s!
  
  I can't wait to wear my tracksuit and doc martens, mousse up my jheri curls and walk like an Egyptian while being a Material girl... Oh god, now I know why the MAFIAA and shills are such massive douchefags. Its still the Eighties for them. THE HORROR, THE UNRESTRAINED PASTEL HORROR!

• Dec 21, 2011 @ 01:59pm

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  on Demolishing The Reasoning Behind Senators Bogus Grandstanding Against Google

  oh man, I am soo jealous of you. I heard that is the best and very hard to get. Apparently you have to visit some seedy places, and maybe you'll get it. Its almost as good as TotallyNotSpywareSerachBar.

• Dec 21, 2011 @ 01:45pm

  Re:

  on Demolishing The Reasoning Behind Senators Bogus Grandstanding Against Google

  Google? Bing? Yahoo? lycos? HA, those are amateurs!
  I use the Ask toolbar, its the best search engine in the universe!

• Dec 21, 2011 @ 01:07pm

  Re: Are you all Doctors now?

  on Do We Really Want To Hand Over Control Of The Internet To A Group That Sued A Dead Grandmother

  Maybe the RIAA can hire this guy., he's covered wars..you know...

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